The postadoption experience
Subtitle: adoptive families' service needs and service outcomes
By: edited by Martha Morrison Dore.
Contributors: Dore, Martha Morrison, 1943-; Casey Family Services.
Publisher: CWLA Press; Child Welfare League of America
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781587600777
Subjects: Adopted children -- Services for -- United States.; Adoptive parents -- Services for -- United States.; Foster children -- Services for -- United States.; Adoption -- United States.; Family services -- United States -- Evaluation.; Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- United States.
Notes: Casey Family Services commissioned the papers in this report to share knowledge and experience in the area of post-adoption services"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Martha Morrison Dore; title: Should one size fit all? : an examination of post-adoption functioning and needs of kin, foster, and matched adoptive families / by Jeanne Howard; title: Adoption and after : adoptive parents' service needs / by Trudy Festinger; title: Adoption through a retrospective lens / by Michael P. Grand; title: A study of the Illinois Adoption/Guardianship Preservation Program / by Susan Livingston Smith; title: Postadoption services : a study of program participants, services, and outcomes / by Kathleen Lenerz, Deborah Gibbs, and Richard P. Barth; title: Maine Adoption Guides Project : a new service model for families adopting children with special needs / by Michel Lahti; title: Adoption crossroads : the development of post-adoption services in Massachusetts / by Christopher G. Hudson ... [et al.]; title: The nature of effective adoption preservation services : a qualitative study / by Susan Livingston Smith; title: Factors affecting adoption subsidy levels in the Washington State Adoption Support Program / by David Fine ... [et al.]; title: Lessons from McCord (1978) for postadoption services / by Jeffrey J. Haugaard; title: Concept mapping the challenges faced by adoptive parents in utilizing postplacement services / by Scott Ryan, Allison Glover, and Scottye J. Cash; title: Where do we go from here? : implications of current research findings for policy, program, and practice in post-adoption services / by Madelyn Freundlich.